dummy
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌmi
[edit] Noun
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dummy (plural dummies)
- A silent person; a person who does not talk.
- An unintelligent person.
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- Don't be such a dummy!
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- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
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- To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
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- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
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- The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
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- (Australian, New Zealand, British) A pacifier.
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- The baby wants her dummy.
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- (bridge) The partner of the winning bidder, who shows his or her hand.
- A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; feint.
- (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
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- The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
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- (programming) An unused parameter or value.
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- If
flag1is false, the other parameters are dummies.
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[edit] Synonyms
- (Something made to look like a person) mannequin, marionette
- (Something to calm a baby) pacifier (US), soother (Canada)
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something constructed with the size and form of a human
for a baby
an unintelligent person
nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one
[edit] Verb
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to dummy (third-person singular simple present dummies, present participle dummying, simple past and past participle dummied)
- To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
- The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.